Newbie: Install 9/Remove 8 on FreeBSD

[Will Yardley]

Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> 
> /etc/rc.conf:
> named_enable="YES"
> named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
> named_flags=""

you may also want to manually rename the dig / host / nslookup binaries
etc. (and i rename the named binary as well just to avoid confusion /
accidents)

i wish there were an easier way to remove stuff from the base system on
freebsd (one thing i like about debian is that you can remove almost
anything with apt).

if you use cvsup to update your source tree, you can put:

NO_BIND=       true

in /etc/make.conf which will keep bind from being updated when you
cvsup.

you could also set the prefix differently when compiling the port (or
from source for that matter) so that the new named overwrites the old
one.  since i've already renamed the binaries and since i update
frequently, i just leave everything in the default location.

w

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